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Idempotent completion of cubes in posets

Category Theory 2019-03-11 v2

Abstract

This note concerns the category \Box of cartesian cubes with connections, equivalently the full subcategory of posets on objects [1]n[1]^n with n0n \geq 0. We show that the idempotent completion of \Box consists of finite complete posets. It follows that cubical sets, ie presheaves over \Box, are equivalent to presheaves over finite complete posets. This yields an alternative exposition of a result by Kapulkin and Voevodsky that simplicial sets form a subtopos of cubical sets.

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@article{arxiv.1805.04126,
  title  = {Idempotent completion of cubes in posets},
  author = {Christian Sattler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.04126},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages, updated with material requested by Thomas Streicher

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